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Hello so i look at the night sky alot , and everytime i see something bright I wonder what it is , anyone help , because I bet those lamos take everything as nibiru
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Are you kidding now? That bright star? I'm sorry to burst your bubble but there are more than one bright star. But one of the brightest stars, that isn't a star, is Jupiter. If you want to find out what you are looking at then I suggest that you use Stellarium, the program is very easy to use and quite good when it comes to finding out what you are looking at
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http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/ataglance has a great website you can visit daily to find planet positions. They also have a star chart link under observing on the left hand side.
Thanks james so that 1 star i was looking at i know what it is:)
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Awesomeeee,
maybe you should ask for a telescope for your birthday. 50x amplification is more than enough to actually see Jupiter and the belts. It is tiny, you need sharp eyes to see it with x50. Saturn is even more tinier but you can actually see the rings.
Now the bigger the telescope the more details you will see. I have a 10" Dobsonion Orion telescope. Not good for taking images but cheap and easy to use for visual seeing. And you also have to realize, that when you see the planet with your own eyes, every photon that strikes your eye actually touched that object before! How cool is that?
Don't buy a cheap telescope in the nearest shop. They don't work, bad optics. Waste of money.
But this http://www.slooh.com/ is also the best alternative option you can have without having to leave your home.
I know the bright blueish star I saw a while back and asked about ended up being Sirius.
“In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.” - Oscar Wilde
I've found Betelgeuse and Rigel are the easiest to spot, although i think everyone knows what Orion(The Hunter) is.
I got a telescope for my birthday only thing i have seen so far is the Moon LOL as for the bright stars well there are a lot up there nawt to do with Nibiru :)))) I love looking at Betelgeuse so for only with the naked eye :/ but i also use Stellarium would love an app for my Blackberry but can't seem to find one ugh :(
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Oh wow my brother has this program called… Night Sky I think? Maybe it's 'starry night' I'm not sure. You enter in your location/time and it calculates the night sky for you. I think you can even 'travel' out to the planets, stars, etc. in this program, too.
My dad built a telescope with his dad back in the early 60's… It is massive and still works to a 'T'… Ever since moving out to the small town I see a LOT more stars now. I even can see the Milky Way! Don't be afraid to look at the sky, Awesomeee… You may see a shooting star (rare but pretty!), earthshine on the moon, beautiful stars and planets… Everything is in it's right place. In fact, I once counted almost 25 airplanes in the sky one night!
I'll check with my brother about that program!
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Here is a link similar to the question you asked… Is this what you mean?
http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=435
Forgive me, I am in no means any type of astronomer, lol. My 13 year old brother knows more than me!
"FEAR: False Evidence Appearing Real" - Unknown
"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" - Carl Sagan
"Your leftovers called… They want their tin foil back." - Personal note to doomsayers.
Just making sure I didn't miss out on seeing our galaxy! Thanks for the link though, nice pictures
Have you ever seen the Milky Way? It's tough… I can only see it when I'm out in the boonies here… And I also saw it one other time in Northern Minnesota and once more in rural PA (middle of nowhere) Here's another website on it:
"FEAR: False Evidence Appearing Real" - Unknown
"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" - Carl Sagan
"Your leftovers called… They want their tin foil back." - Personal note to doomsayers.
Come on guys tell me what those bright stars are before dawn , I checked skyandtelescope they told me they were Mercury venus and jupiter but can you 2012hoax.org aproove that and watch those vids on the comments section thanks !! :)
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Awesomeee, chill out a little there. You made this request multiple times in that other thread. There is no reason to start spamming the same thing in an old thread out of sheer hysteria. Calm down and be patient. Believe it or not, some of us don't actually watch this forum 24/7, but sooner or later somebody will see your post and respond to it if a response is warranted.
Come on guys tell me what those bright stars are before dawn
Yes master.
I checked skyandtelescope they told me they were Mercury venus and jupiter
I'm going to go with mercury, Venus and Jupiter.
Don't believe me, which wouldn't surprise me, then here's a NASA link explaining the morning alignments:
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/09may_morningplanets/
That article says the alignments should end on may 30th, so chances are if you saw it recently, this is it.
can you 2012hoax.org aproove that
I'm certainly willing to accept sky and telescope telling me it's mercury, Venus and Jupiter before I accept a bunch of crackpots telling me it's comet elenin, planet x and nibiru. How about you?
and watch those vids on the comments section thanks !!
Sorry, no can do, I have grass I need to watch as it grows.
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It makes sence Thanks gary
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We can't actually see our whole galaxy because we are in it. There is nothing to give us an actual view of our entire galaxy from outside it. When people say they saw the Milky Way, that is just the milky, cloudy looking band across the sky which is all we can see of an edge-on view of the galaxy. That is actually how the galaxy got its name. You have to be away from city lights to see it. When I lived in a small town in western Kansas, I used to see it often. Ive been in larger places ever since, so I seldom get to see it anymore. If you go far enough out to get rid of the interference of the city lights, you can see it.
Assuming you can reduce the background light so it becomes visible, you would not need a telescope or binoculars to see it.
No. it's a fairly wide cloudy looking band across the sky. You don't need any magnification to see it, just the absence of light pollution.
Wow. I did not know that. I bet it looks amazing. Can't wait to look for it next time at my cabin. It's in the middle of nowhere in far northern Minnesota, so I bet it might be visible.
You should be able to see it there, as long as you have clear nights.
Wow! Stellarium looks fantastic friends! And you know what, it totally puts things into perspective for you! You see just how gargantuan and spacious our solar system is, and how unlikely the concept of our planet being randomly destroyed is. Well, when I say unlikely what I mean is there's got to be like a 1 in 400,000,000 chance of us being struck with all that room up there…
Hi Molly;
Stellarium is great for free software. It would be pretty darn good for paid software too, but it's great that it is free.
There are some commercial programs that beat Stellarium, including StarryNight, but for answering the casual "what is that bright star?" question, it is hard to knock Stellarium.
As far as getting hit, it depends on how you define it. The earth is a pretty big place, and we plow through a lot of dust in our orbit around the sun. In fact, the estimate is that we gain about 100 tons of mass every day from all the dust and small meteors that we hit (or that hit us, depending on how you look at it).
Currently the odds of getting hit by a particular asteroid in 2036 are 1:250,000. I say 'currently' because we don't have a good enough fix on its orbit to say for sure, but the chances are that after the next couple of passes that our chances of being hit by it are going to drop to zero. We discuss this on the asteroids page.
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If it would hit , scientists would blow it up… Life in the 2030s well duh..
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Blowing up an asteroid might be one of the worse options Awesomeee, whether we've the technology to do it or not.
Really? I Dont know how it would so you should explain it to me… My guess it would make the asteroid mad … Hey astreoids have feelings to :D
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My guess it would make the asteroid mad
It wouldn't work because asteroids travel at an incredible rate. You could fire missiles, bombs, whatever you want, if it's large enough it will laugh all the way down. Think about it this way, if a 10 km asteroid is on coarse to impact one spot on earth, and you hit it with bombs or missiles, all you will be left with is a broken up asteroid that could now hit several places on earth. If you fire nukes at it, it will be a radioactive asteroid when it gets here. Bad, bad idea.
The best idea so far is to use a gravity tug. This is simply flying a spacecraft of some kind with a huge mass near the asteroid, the spacecrafts mass will give it a gravitational pull, and the asteroid can be tugged out of harms way. It sounds far fetched but this is an idea that is being taken seriously by people who specialise in patrolling the skies for potential objects on a collision coarse with earth.
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But isent apophis the size of a football feild lol…
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So the best bets would be to change its orbit right? But seriously if it really is the size of football feild then , people should protect their football feilds or small towns not the whole world…
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There is a lot more that goes into it than that. It isn't just going to gently sit down on top of a town. It would have a lot of energy behind it.
Let's say that an asteroid the size of a house crashed on Earth at 30,000 mph. It would have an amount of energy roughly equal to the bomb that fell on Hiroshima — perhaps 20 kilotons. An asteroid like this would flatten reinforced concrete buildings up to half a mile from ground zero, and flatten wooden structures perhaps a mile and a half from ground zero. It would, in other words, do extensive damage to any city.
That is the size of a house.
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We can fill up the hole made by the asteroid and make the worlds biggest pool :D
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Also, we will have 7 years warning if Apophis actually passes through the tiny (in space terms) gravitational keyhole and gets moved into an orbit that would result in impact. We would be working to mitigate its orbit and prevent impact, but we would also know well ahead of time where it would hit, and evacuate the area. At 330 meters long, it would cause only regional devastation.
Apophis= No Problem <
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